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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
6. Post-war and Postmodern Art and Architecture Caroline Jones has written extensively on the subject of postmodern art and studio practices (as in Machine in the Studio, above). Her 2005 book on art writer Clement Greenberg examines his impact on postwar art, and the generation of postmodern opposition to this controversial figure. Jones also organized several monographic, survey, and/or site-specific exhibitions on postwar artists such as Frank Stella, Richard Diebenkorn, Sol LeWitt, Walter De Maria, the Bay Area Figurative group and others; these have been shown in a range of museums from the US to Japan. Her current research into biennial culture and globalism carries on a project completed for UNESCO on Nationalism and Internationalism in Modern Art (2008). Mark Jarzombek has engaged the question of Postmodernism in his article on Robert Stern and in his book entitled the Psychologizing of Modernity (2000). He has also edited a volume on American corporate architecture after 1945 for the Journal of Architectural Education (54/1 November 2000). He continues to work on topics relating to post-WWII rebuilding in Germany expanding on his previously published work “Urban Heterology: Dresden and the Dialectics of Post-Traumatic History” in Studies in Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics (2001). In Spring 2003, Jones and Jarzombek offered a seminar probing the disciplinary issues between postmodern art and architecture, concluding with the problems posed by the current "post-critical" condition. Stanford Anderson studies post-war architectural modernism, as in the work of Aalto, Kahn, and Dieste. He teaches a subject on architecture and criticism since 1960.
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